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1.Ren & Stimpy animator John K. sends fan illustrated how-to letter (lettersofnote.com)
210 points by adamhowell on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
2.Understanding delete in Javascript (perfectionkills.com)
209 points by RyanMcGreal on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
3.Similar Hacker News Users (swimwithoutgettingwet.com)
175 points by riffer on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
4. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.Illegal prime (wikipedia.org)
152 points by niyazpk on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
5.The Era of Black Boxes (melikyan.blogspot.com)
119 points by mojuba on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
6.Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee (therumpus.net)
110 points by blasdel on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
7. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
7.Show HN: My exercise bike hooked up to an xbox - pedal faster to drive faster. (projectexcitebike.blogspot.com)
76 points by acgourley on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
8.The Avatar Effect (wsj.com)
72 points by fiaz on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
9.How To Become A Hacker (catb.org)
70 points by dskhatri on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
10. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Can we stop the language bashing please ? (jacquesmattheij.com)
70 points by jacquesm on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
11.You Release Late and Infrequently (measuringmeasures.blogspot.com)
65 points by liebke on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
12.Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant (wired.com)
61 points by iamwil on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
13. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
13.Some surprising quotes from Rasmus Lerdorf (php creator) (wikiquote.org)
58 points by afterz on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
14.Google AdWords for TV (google.com)
54 points by _pius on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
15.Just the Bill (justthebill.com)
55 points by nickmolnar2 on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
16. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
16.Rackspace vs. EC2: Performance Analysis (thebitsource.com)
53 points by timf on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
17.Nokia tries to reinvent itself: Bears at the door (economist.com)
53 points by bensummers on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
18.Fast portable non-blocking network programming with Libevent (wangafu.net)
50 points by silentbicycle on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile phone at CES (bbc.co.uk)
49 points by bensummers on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
20.Ex-Bell Labs AI researcher unveils first life-size AI-driven sex robot (smh.com.au)
48 points by petercooper on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
21.Why programming and musical talent go together: enjoying seeing patterns (threeriversinstitute.org)
46 points by KentBeck on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
22. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
22.Ski Resorts Exaggeration of Snowfall Reduced Sharply Because of iPhone App (npr.org)
45 points by dean on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
23.Weasel words and the absurdity of corporate speak (37signals.com)
43 points by mrduncan on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
24.Poll: Hackers, do you play any musical instruments? [ext]
36 points by abstractbill on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
25. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
25.Sick of waiting on hold? Try lucyphone! Snag an account w/ code = "LUCYCOMB" (lucyphone.com)
37 points by tomeeo on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
26.Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad Home Page (ameritech.net)
35 points by slapshot on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
27.Vim switching to Mercurial (groups.google.com)
35 points by aiiie on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
28. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
28.Programming Style Evolution in Perl (perliscope.blogspot.com)
32 points by jrey on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
29.San Francisco Hacker House Has Space! [ext]
32 points by dangrover on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
30.Evented I/O based web servers, explained using bunnies (slideshare.net)
30 points by r11t on Jan 11, 2010 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
31. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments

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